Original title: Jiaodong Airport has officially entered a new era of "double wings".
The reporter learned from the Civil Aviation Qingdao Supervision Bureau that at 06:23 on December 1, with the safe take-off of China Eastern Airlines Flight 2413 and Shandong Airlines 4691, marking the beginning of the trial operation of the independent parallel departure mode of Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport's dual runway, Jiaodong Airport has been optimized from the current "one drop together" to "two up and one down", and has entered a new era of "double flight with wings" on the double runway.
Since it was officially put into operation on August 12, 2021, Jiaodong Airport has been implementing the isolated parallel operation mode of "one drop together" for two runways, and has been operating safely for 27 months, with the overall situation stable and orderly. According to the requirements of the "Regulations on the Management of Parallel Runway Simultaneous Instrument Operation", in order to give full play to the operation benefits of Qingdao Airport's dual runways, improve airport capacity, promote economic development, and enhance the demonstration effect of "four-type airports", the East China Air Traffic Management Bureau of Civil Aviation plans to implement the test operation of "independent parallel departure" of parallel runways in Jiaodong Airport. On October 23, the Air Traffic Management Office of the Civil Aviation Administration of China issued the "Letter on the Work Requirements for the Independent Departure Test Operation of the Parallel Runway at Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport", agreeing to implement the independent departure test operation of the parallel runway at Qingdao Jiaodong International Airport, and the test operation shall not be less than 1 year.
After the implementation of the parallel runway independent departure operation mode, the two runways of Qingdao Airport will take off at the same time, which greatly reduces the time for aircraft to queue for take-off, and further realizes speed and efficiency on the basis of the smooth and orderly operation of the previous flights, so as to provide passengers with safer, more efficient and convenient air transport services. At the same time, the introduction of the new model will help Qingdao Airport continue to improve the operational efficiency of winter flights and the support capacity of the first flight, and the aircraft de-icing and snow removal capacity will be more than doubled, effectively alleviating the backlog of departing flights under special weather. The implementation of the new operation mode of independent parallel departure not only improves the efficiency of air traffic control and airport operation, but also provides support for the growth of flight capacity and aviation business volume during peak hours, and lays a solid foundation for Qingdao Airport to build an international aviation hub. In the next step, with the implementation and gradual maturity of the new operation mode, Qingdao Airport Group will cooperate with Qingdao Air Traffic Control Station and other units to achieve the goal of "relevant parallel instrument approach mode" and "independent operation of dual runways", actively explore and continue to make efforts, and make full preparations for optimizing the airspace environment and improving peak hour flight capacity.
Qingdao** Guanhai News reporter Zhou Jianliang.
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